Tent-slide.



H. T. NEUMAN & G. S. DANZIGER.

TENT SLIDE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1914.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

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TENT-SLIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Application filed May 9, 1914. Serial No. 837,371.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY T. NEUMAN and CHARLES S. DANZIGER, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Tent- Slides, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tent-slides that are used for tightening the guy-ropes which fasten the eaves or margins of the tent-roof to the stakes and maintain the roof stretched taut. These ropes have a tendency to slacken in dry weather and to unduly tighten in damp or moist weather, whereby injury to the tent and considerable inconvenience to tent dwellers is caused and the ropes require frequent readjustment.

The principal object of our invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, conveniently applicable, and improved tent-slide for this purpose that will automatically adjust itself to maintain a uniform proper tension of the guy-rope under all weather conditions.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the tent-slide. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1. Fig 3 is a View, in a reduced scale, showing the application of the tent-slide in connection with the guy rope.

The tent-slide is preferably made of a single piece of wire of suitable steel, bronze, or other metal. A portion of said wire is wound or spun in the form of a bindersleeve 1 from which a portion 2 of the wire extends parallelly to the axis of said sleeve for about an inch and is then bent rightangularly to the axis and extends as portion 3 for about three inches. At the end of portion 3 the wire is curled in the form of a spiral spring 4, the axis of which is parallel to the axis of said sleeve and perpendicular to the portion 3. The extremity of said spring and of the wire terminates in the form of an eye 5.

When applying the tent-slide, the guyrope 6 secured to the margin 7 of the tentroof 7 is passed through the binder-sleeve 1 of the tent-slide, and the rope is then carried around the spike 8 and its extremity is firmly tied to the eye 5 of the slide. The sleeve 1 may be then grasped and pulled toward the tent-roof 7, away from the spike 8, until the desired tension of said rope is attained, said sleeve binding firmly upon the kink of the rope that passes therethrough and being thereby held in whatever position it is adjusted along the rope 6. In this position of the tent-slide, Fig. 3, the portion 3 is disposed approximately parallel to the rope, the spring 1 has its axis approximately perpendicularly to said rope and is pulled by the rope in a direction transversely to its axis, and the rope-tension slightly opens or curves the spring away from its position shown in Fig. 1. Should the weather cause the guy-rope to slacken, such slack will be readily taken up by the spring 4 in its tendency to close to its initial state shown in Fig. 1 and the proper rope-tension will be further maintained, and should the rope be caused to contract unduly said spring will give way further and thereby relieve such additional tension, and the proper rope-tension will be again restored and maintained. In this way the spring 4: continues automatically to open and curve away from its initial position and to close toward initial position, whereby the proper uniform tension of the guy-rope to which the tent slide has been originally adjusted is continually maintained in all atmospheric conditions, the tent-slide being readily responsive to tension changes of the rope 6.

Having thus described our invention, we claim 1. A tent slide for tightening guy-ropes having the combination of a sleeve adaptable to bind upon the guy-rope when in operative position, a bar extending from said sleeve, and a tension controlling spiral spring at the end of said bar for attaching the extremity of the guy-rope thereto having its axis disposed relatively to said sleeve whereby it is approximately perpendicularly to the rope when in operative position.

2. A tent slide for tightening guy-ropes having the combination of a sleeve adaptable to bind upon the guy-rope when in operative position, and a tension controlling spiral spring for attaching the extremity of the guy-rope thereto depending from said sleeve and having its axis disposed relatively to said sleeve whereby it is approximately perpendicularly to the rope when in operative position.

3. A tent-slide having the combination of a sleeve adaptable to bind upon the guy-rope, a bar extending from said sleeve partly parallelly to its axis and partly perpendicularly to its axis, and a spiral tension-controlling spring at the end of said bar for attaching the guy-rope thereto having its axis approximately parallel to said sleeve axis.

4. A tent slide for tightening guy-ropes having the combination of means to bind it upon the guy-rope When in operative position, and a spiral tension controlling spring for attaching the extremity of the guy-rope thereto depending from said binding means andvhaving its axis disposed relatively to said binding means whereby tension upon county of New York, and State of New York, this 23rd day of April A. D. 1914.

HENRY T. NEUMAN. CHARLES S. DANZIGER.

Witnesses: V

SALVATORE J. P. DRAso'rTA, B. ROMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington,-D. C. 

